With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.